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Derek Drymon

Derek Drymon

Writer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Derek Drymon (born November 19, 1968) is an American animator, writer, storyboard artist, director, comedian, and producer. He has worked on numerous animated cartoon productions. Derek Drymon was born in New Jersey. He attended Jefferson Township and Dover public schools as a child and enjoyed drawing and making comic books. Drymon graduated from Jefferson Township High School in 1987. Drymon attended the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York, where he majored in illustration, sharpening his drawling skills and moving from still images to animation. He graduated from SVA in 1992. Drymon obtained an internship with Disney on the strength of his life drawings. Drymon was discovered by Nickelodeon in 1993. He moved to California to work as an animator for Nickelodeon. In 1993, Drymon also began working as a storyboard artist and writer for Rocko's Modern Life. It was here he met two of his future employers, Tim Hill, Chris Savino and Stephen Hillenburg; Hill was a writer, Hillenburg a co-producer and storyboard artist. In 1997, Hillenburg created SpongeBob SquarePants. Drymon performed many duties on SpongeBob, including being a writer on all episodes, the creative director, and, on his last season with the show, supervising producer. Drymon also worked on the Cartoon Network animated series Camp Lazlo. Drymon worked on Tim Hill's side project, the popular KaBlam! skit Action League Now!, as a storyboard artist. He also wrote the Emmy Award-nominated episode of CatDog "Doggone". Drymon met Stephen Hillenburg on the Nickelodeon cartoon Rocko's Modern Life. Hillenburg recalled Drymon as "one of the main people in the genesis of SpongeBob". Drymon teamed up with Hillenburg, Hill, and Nick Jennings who was also a companion from Nickelodeon. Drymon was the creative director for the first three seasons and became Supervising Producer in season 3 until being replaced by Paul Tibbitt starting in season 4. Along with Stephen Hillenburg, Drymon approved the writers' ideas and outlines for episodes and controlled the creative and production process on SpongeBob. Drymon was eventually promoted to Executive producer on television show Adventure Time, and became a lead writer and director for DreamWorks Pictures, Illumination Entertainment, Sony Pictures Animation and Rovio Animation. During the first three seasons of SpongeBob, Drymon being a creative director allowed him to work with executive story editor Merriwether Williams and the rest of the writing team. Staff writer Kent Osborne responded to the writing process with Drymon and other writers by saying "By the third season we had done 26 half-hours. I came up with millions of ideas." Despite the issues with writing new episodes, Drymon collaborated with the writers to create episode ideas like the half-hour specials and episodes that focused on other characters, for example the season three episodes "The Algae's Always Greener" and "Plankton's Army" focused on Sheldon Plankton and "Doing Time" focused on Mrs. Puff. Drymon said in an interview "Coming up with episode ideas was always tough".

Born: November 19, 1968 (Age 56) in Morristown, New Jersey, USA

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Derek Drymon  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
6.1
ActorHuman Zombie (voice)2022
Movie
6.5
ActorWorker Snail #2 / FAST Network Trackside Reporter (voice)2013
Movie
7.3
ActorThe Screamer / Fisherman (voice)2004
Movie
4.6
ActorBad Comedian2003
Short Film
6.8
ActorTinkles / Zombie / Gillman (voice)2021
Movie
6.4
ArtStoryboard Artist2017
Movie
7.2
WritingStory2011
Movie
7.2
CrewThanks2010
Movie
7.3
DirectingScreenplay, Producer, Co-Director2004
Movie
6.1
DirectingDirector2022
Movie
6.4
DirectingDirector1998
Movie
7.3
DirectingDirector, Lead Editor, Writer2010
Movie
6
DirectingDirector2019
Movie
6.7
DirectingDirector2022
Movie
DirectingDirector, Writer2025
TV Show
8.7
ProductionProducer
156 Episodes
2010-2018
TV Show
6.3
ArtStoryboard Artist, Writer
1 Episode
2005-2008
TV Show
6.7
DirectingWriter, Director, Storyboard Artist
1 Episode
1998-2005
TV Show
7.8
DirectingDirector
3 Episodes
1996-2004
TV Show
7.7
ArtStoryboard Artist, Additional Writing
6 Episodes
1993-1996
TV Show
8
DirectingProducer, Storyboard Artist, Creative Director, Writer
40 Episodes
1999
Short Film
6.8
DirectingDirector2021
Short Film
5.1
DirectingDirector2019
Movie
7.4
DirectingDirector, Writer, Storyboard Artist2007
Movie
7.3
WritingMusical, Original Music Composer2019
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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